January 21, 2013
— Gabriel Malor Happy Monday.
USA Today is dropping Gallup as its pollster after several notably inaccurate years of results.
Sen. Rubio is rallying votes for his immigration reform plan.
It's nice to know that even if I beat a guy, threaten to kill him, commit legal misconduct, go to jail, and get disbarred, I can always be a Democratic state legislator.
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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 02:49 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:50 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/IdP5Rj
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:50 AM (53z96)
http://is.gd/KVWqoV
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:51 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 21, 2013 02:51 AM (+rSRq)
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Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:51 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:51 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (53z96)
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Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (RrD4h)
http://is.gd/DzlH4p
And thatÂ’s it for Monday, January 21, 2013. Not much out there. Everything is inauguration and MLK day.
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:52 AM (53z96)
You mean he is drumming up Amnesty Round - III so we can 30M more instant Dem voters and FSA patrons.
Piss on Rubio, he has blown any chance of support from me in 2016.
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:54 AM (53z96)
Posted by: billygoat at January 21, 2013 02:54 AM (BbS5+)
http://t.co/orCokUg2
*shudder* I'd rather be killed on the spot, thanks.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 21, 2013 02:54 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:55 AM (53z96)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 02:57 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: General Woundwort at January 21, 2013 06:52 AM (RrD4h)
Its from The Hill, you must take it with a ton of salt.
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:57 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Vae Victus at January 21, 2013 02:58 AM (cpMdE)
http://is.gd/0a5idq
Look at what she's fucking wearing. For fuck's sake, they couldn't find anyone who's ever painted anything before to help them stage the photo?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 21, 2013 02:59 AM (hO8IJ)
Please no, I haven't had breakfast yet.
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 03:00 AM (53z96)
Feels like I kicked the flu w/o antibiotics. So it can be done, but those first 2 days are a living hell.
Posted by: sTevo at January 21, 2013 03:00 AM (VMcEw)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:00 AM (t9e6Q)
http://is.gd/0a5idq
...love the glove.
Posted by: billygoat at January 21, 2013 03:00 AM (BbS5+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:00 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:01 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:02 AM (XkWWK)
OK, ‘rons and ‘ronettes, here we go (and my choice is Morticia, as you’ll see).
Thanks for the morning briefing, Gabe and Vic. Since weÂ’re cursed with the SCOAMF, Worfette and their brood infesting the White House for the next four years, why donÂ’t we turn our attention to the occupants of an altogether different house?
Last week, I told you a story about possibly the most famous house in the history of the movies next to the brooding Gothic manse that rises high above the shabby Bates Motel in Psycho – the crumbling, overgrown, impossibly extravagant Spanish Revival style home of silent screen star Norma Desmond at 10086 Sunset Boulevard.
Now, letÂ’s move to the smaller screen of television to a house that, unlike its oft-twinned partner at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, once really existed: the home of Gomez and Morticia Addams at 0001 Cemetery Lane. In other words, the Addams Family house.
The house, a Second Emipre style manse, was built in 1888 for a man named Henry Newhall. Although its real address was 21 Chester Place, because of its location in the West Adams district just south of downtown LA, the city directory initially gave it the fortuitous address of 747 West Adams Street (and not Adams Boulevard, as reported in the otherwise marvelous The Addams Chronicles).
By 1906, the house had been bought by Edward and Estelle Doheny, oil millionaires who were buying up all lots in the immediate vicinity in order to protect their privacy. Once it was bought, the house was gated off and, like two other houses across the street, rented out. In 1958, Estelle DohenyÂ’s will left the Chester Place house and surrounding land to Mount St. MaryÂ’s College, and, as part of a complex that included student and teacher housing, that was where Filmways Productions (an MGM subsidiary) found it.
The house was used as a backdrop during the 1964 pilot episode The Addams Family Goes To School, and can be seen in back of Gomez during the opening credits of each subsequent episode, as he merrily sharpens the iron spikes topping the railings enclosing the house. But because the house didn’t have quite the “Addams Family” look Filmways wanted, they made some alterations.
Watch the pilot and the episode introductions. You’ll see the front of the house, with its porch-cochère, and first and second stories, but no higher. Where’s the tower where Uncle Fester hides in his closet and Pugsley plays with gunpowder? Well, they didn’t really exist. 21 Chester was a two-story and attic house; Filmways simply blew up a production shot to larger dimensions for artist Louis McMannus to create a matte portrait of the house, adding a tower, high gingerbread-shingle roofs and even a bent TV antenna, as well as aging the house a bit to give it a more appropriate appearance.*
But unlike Sunset Boulevard, the interior of the Chester Place house wasnÂ’t copied for The Addams Family, the interior and its decorations being designed by set decorator Ruby Leavitt, a veteran who also had Pillow Talk, The Sound of Music and Chinatown to her credit.
After the end of Addams’ second season, it hadn’t been decided whether the show was to be renewed, so the house set was locked down until further notice, with no one being allowed access. When the word came down that the show was canceled, the set was opened. . .only to find that, during some point in the lockdown, it had been broken into and nearly all of the wonderful props – Fester’s bed of nails, Gomez’s suit of armor, Morticia’s wicker chair, the swordfish with the leg of Cousin Ferook sticking out of the mouth – had been stolen!
Then, at some point between 1968 and 1972, the Chester Place house was demolished, and where students at the Frederick Douglass Academy now run track and field events once stood that creepy, kooky and altogether ooky house which will forever be known as The Addams Family House.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. And, just to bore you to tears a teeny but more – why not check out my book, The Director’s Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery, available on Kindle and at the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites?
*Trivia – the porte-cochère of the Addams House is also seen in an exterior shot used for the 1964 movie Seven Days in May.
More trivia - if you go about five blocks east of the Addams House location heading towards the Harbor Freeway, you’ll come to 649 West Adams Boulevard; once the home of Theda Bara, and, later, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:02 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: billygoat at January 21, 2013 03:03 AM (BbS5+)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:03 AM (9ScGj)
Look at what she's fucking wearing. For fuck's sake, they couldn't find anyone who's ever painted anything before to help them stage the photo?
Gawd she's fugly. Think I'm getting the crud. Swollen lymphnode. I hate Mondays.
Posted by: Infidel at January 21, 2013 03:04 AM (bzOLE)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:04 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: somejoe at January 21, 2013 03:05 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:05 AM (t9e6Q)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 07:04 AM (XkWWK)
You'll have to fight zombie Nat King Cole.
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 03:08 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:10 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:12 AM (OqOKd)
Of course, that one was the very rarest - the one with the BOMB SHELTER, made in 1962 right after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And people wonder why so many Boomers never planned for the future. LOL!
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 21, 2013 03:14 AM (GoIUi)
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:14 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:16 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:17 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Major Noogles at January 21, 2013 03:17 AM (Id+yE)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:17 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:18 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:18 AM (XkWWK)
also today:
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
With special emphasis, on this day of all days, on the word "lady."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:19 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:19 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 07:17 AM (XkWWK)
Julie...hands down.
Posted by: billygoat at January 21, 2013 03:19 AM (BbS5+)
Julie Newmar
first recorded tingling of my boy parts
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:20 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:20 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:20 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:21 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 21, 2013 03:22 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:22 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 21, 2013 03:22 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Crankypants Extraordinaire at January 21, 2013 03:23 AM (hO8IJ)
Oh well, it is Inauguration Day for Coco Shickelgruber.
*golf clap*
Well played, sir. Very well played.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:23 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:23 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:23 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 21, 2013 03:24 AM (x59Gv)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:25 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Infidel at January 21, 2013 03:26 AM (bzOLE)
Posted by: somejoe at January 21, 2013 03:26 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:26 AM (9ScGj)
Story is on Huffpost, if anyone wants to see the video.
I am going to document fiascos I run across today on Twitter or such. Anyone who has the stomach to watch might also report them. In fact, it might be a good thread for entertainment starting about mid-morning.
It's 33 in DC right now with rain or snow showers predicted for this afternoon (parade time). I am hoping for freezing rain, myself.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 21, 2013 03:26 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:27 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:28 AM (tWBKX)
............
How about all three and let's just say I died and went to heaven?
Good morning you morons!
My thought today.. has anyone figured out how much it will cost this country when King Barry I brings millions of illegal immigrants into semi-legal status if that qualifies them for federal benefits?
Think about it.. for a measly fine (which will go uncollected) these illegals will enter at the bottom of the earnings scale and automatically start getting food stamps, Obamacare subsidies, earned income credits (negative income tax), etc. etc..
Someone needs to calculate this and shout that number to tax payers whenever Barry brings up his little plan.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 21, 2013 03:29 AM (UTq/I)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:30 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: G. at January 21, 2013 03:31 AM (s9+la)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 21, 2013 03:31 AM (x59Gv)
That's a tough one, but Sam Elliott hands down.
Posted by: Infidel at January 21, 2013 03:32 AM (bzOLE)
Posted by: Zombie David Caradine at January 21, 2013 03:32 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:33 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at January 21, 2013 03:33 AM (KhL/e)
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Posted by: sTevo at January 21, 2013 03:35 AM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:35 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:35 AM (tWBKX)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at January 21, 2013 03:35 AM (KhL/e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:35 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:36 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 07:20 AM
Eufala Roop or Lola Langusta?
Or, for the real obscurists among us, Tura Satana?
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 21, 2013 03:36 AM (yKUrR)
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:37 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:38 AM (tWBKX)
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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:38 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 21, 2013 03:38 AM (yW4lI)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 21, 2013 03:39 AM (UTq/I)
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Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 21, 2013 03:39 AM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 21, 2013 03:40 AM (5J54Q)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:41 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:41 AM (9ScGj)
How about Morticia or her twin Ophelia?
Or even better, Samantha or her evil twin? I thought the evil twin was smokin' hot.
Morticia was perfect. Ophelia was looney-tunes. Did Samantha have an evil twin? I thought that was Jeannie.
Uncle Arthur or Dr. Bombay?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:41 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 21, 2013 03:42 AM (5J54Q)
Jeanne was much more naive....more likely to do anal.
So would her evil twin. But the catcher's position would be a little different, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:43 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:43 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:43 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: spypeach at January 21, 2013 03:44 AM (pwTow)
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Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:47 AM (9ScGj)
For the ettes and teh gheys:
Han Solo or Lando Calrissian?
(Hint: The correct answer is Darth Vader. Chewbacca is also acceptable)
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at January 21, 2013 03:47 AM (NF2Bf)
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Scroll down to the photo of Mooch pretending to paint something.
http://is.gd/0a5idq
Wookiebama is ugly enough to make a train take a dirt road.
Posted by: ALH at January 21, 2013 03:48 AM (eqV3Q)
Posted by: DangerGirl at January 21, 2013 03:49 AM (yxa5A)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 21, 2013 03:49 AM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:49 AM (SjUPQ)
Posted by: DangerGirl
Jo, with Blair filming and Cousin Gerry narrating.
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at January 21, 2013 03:50 AM (NF2Bf)
Not sure if that was intentional or not.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 21, 2013 03:50 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: Mooch at January 21, 2013 03:50 AM (SSWdi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:50 AM (XkWWK)
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Posted by: Icedog at January 21, 2013 03:51 AM (9ScGj)
Posted by: Case at January 21, 2013 03:51 AM (vVmp0)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 03:51 AM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:52 AM (XkWWK)
That one is tough.
Hmmm.... which one was in "Bullitt" ?
oh yeah http://is.gd/CiOzsi
Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:52 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 21, 2013 03:53 AM (XkWWK)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 21, 2013 03:53 AM (5J54Q)
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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:58 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at January 21, 2013 03:58 AM (V3kRK)
This ought to really derail things: Jessica Rabbit or Poison Ivy?
Oh, DOOM! is up - thanks, Vic. We'll save "hot cartoon ladies" for tomorrow, gents.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 21, 2013 03:59 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: CharlieSays at January 21, 2013 04:00 AM (2aJHq)
Google search "My Living Doll" for 5-foot-11 Julie Newmar (1964) in a baby doll nightie. I don't even want to know why the Air Force was dressing robots in sexy lingerie, but I can only assume there was no shortage of volunteers for long-term space station duty. Way, way ahead of its time.
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at January 21, 2013 04:04 AM (a5ljo)
Archie of Reggie?
Reggie would turn out to be the cheaing ex-husband.
Archie probably went bald and had a huge spare tire.
It's a tough call.
Posted by: ALH at January 21, 2013 04:05 AM (eqV3Q)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 21, 2013 04:17 AM (yW4lI)
Posted by: Bill at January 21, 2013 04:17 AM (xFYVW)
This is especially true in big cities like Chicago - where your record is clean compared to that of the electorate.
Posted by: Shakin' Like a Man on a Fuzzy Tree at January 21, 2013 04:56 AM (eMtQ2)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 21, 2013 05:06 AM (yW4lI)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at January 21, 2013 05:08 AM (yW4lI)
Jackson, MS - A 23yr old man was shot in the chest during the MLK parade on Saturday.
http://tinyurl.com/anpo49k
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